One of my family history contacts has permitted me to forward to several
mailing lists the result of a recent complaint made to Familysearch. See the
details below. It occurs to me that we may be able to 'crowdsource'
corrections if members of the relevant lists deliberately look for entries
near the start and finish of the registers affected and collated details are
sent to FamilySearch and FindmyPast.
If someone has database experience and would like to co-ordinate such a
response, or if someone has access to the original registers or a quality
index to them (such as produced by Gwent FHS, Glamorgan FHS, FreeReg or the
Mongenes database) of one or more of the parishes and would like to identify
Familysearch citations for entries on the first and last pages of the
relevant registers, please contact me off-list for a reference that can be
used.
I am copying this to the Rootsweb Glamorgan list as well as the Rootsweb
Monmouthshire and the Yahoo Mongenes list as Glamorgan FHS have indexed at
least one of the parishes involved. Also I rather hope we can do something
similar with some West Glamorgan parishes that have been wrongly labelled on
FamilySearch and FindmyPast.
Jeff
Quote - reply from Familysearch to some specific queries-
Thank you for contacting Familysearch with the details of the problems with
the records from Monmouthshire, Wales
We were able to look through the films and the following is a summary of the
errors we have found.
1. Film 2419405, DGS 4393257. The film has records from Rockfield, Rumney,
St Brides Wentlloog, St. Maughans and St Mellons in Monmouthsire. The
indexes found in the collection Wales, Monmouthshire, Parish Registers,
1538-1912 show the location as Rockfield except indexes taken from Images
755-790 - Burials 1813-1904. These are are correctly shown as St Mellons.
2. Film 2415010, DGS 4393200. The film has records for
LLangatock-Iuxta-Caerleon, Rumney, Llanover, Tregare in Monmouthshire, but
all indexes show the location as LLangatock Juxta Caerleon. These indexes
are also found at Wales, Monmouthshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912. The
following is a link to those records for your convenience:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2075051
The records from Find My Past have the same mis-information. Unfortunately,
there is no easy way to determine which is the correct indexed location
without looking at the film. The film can be ordered on loan to a
FamilySearch center near you. Just click on the film number in the catalog
and you will be directed to a film ordering page. The records can also be
viewed on Find My Past at a local FamilySearch Center
We have notified our technical staff of the errors and hopefully they will
be able to make the corrections in the not-too-distant future. However, due
to large demands on limited resources, this may take some time.
We are also adding a note in the Wiki Known Issues document to alert other
researchers of the problem. If you are unfamiliar with the Wiki page, it is
found by following the "Learn More" link on the Collection main page. We
encourage researchers to always follow the Learn More link in each
collection of records to read details particular to that set of records, any
Known Issues, related websites for searching and instructions on how to cite
the records for your sources.
We wish you success in your family research. Don't hesitate to contact us
again if we can be of further assistance of if we have not correctly
diagnosed the problem.